Socialism 
Unmasked 


"It  is  rather  surprising  that  the 
Protestant  churchmen  of  this 
country  have  been  so  slow  to 
see  that  Socialism  Is  the  enemy 
of  Christianity — so  slow  in  de- 
fense of  their  faith." — Inter-Ocean 
(Chicago)  August  12,  1912. 


1912: 

Catholic  Publishing  Company 
Huntington,  Indiana 


Nihil  Obstat 
Rt.  Rev.  Mon.  J.  H.  Oechtering,  V.  G. 

Censor. 


Table  of  Contents. 


Page 

False  Principles  of  Economic  Socialism 

Shown   5 

Why  He  Left  the  Eanks  of  the  Socialist 

Party   16 

The  Philosophy  of  Socialism  Is  Un- 
christian  20 

No  Christian  Could  Subscribe  to  the 

Creed  of  Eeal  Socialists   22 

Sample  of  Socialist  Blasphemy   30 

Bishop   von  Ketteler   Opposed  Child- 
Labor  Before  Marx   31 


INTRODUCTION. 


So  much  has  been  written  and  said  on  So- 
cialism in  late  years  that  our  little  brochure 
would  hardly  seem  to  fill  a  want.  Yet,  my  dear 
reader,  nothing  seems  to  be  so  little  understood, 
even  by  Socialists  themselves,  as  true  Social- 
ism. When  Socialists  ask  for  a  hearing  they 
present  only  what  is  known  as  ^^Economic  So- 
cialism,''  viz.  their  proposed  solution  of  "the 
bread  and  butter  problem,''  and  their  plan  for 
the  more  even  distribution  of  the  world's  goods. 
But  they  base  even  this  part  of  their  program 
on  wrong  principles,  on  false  philosophy. 

We  are  not  offering  in  these  pages  a  long, 
drawn-out  dissertation  on  the  subject,  but  we 

1.  Examine  the  props  on  which  Economic 
Socialism  rests; 

2.  Kefer  the  reader  to  one  who  was  for 
years  an  ardent  apostle  in  Socialism's  behalf, 
but  who  openly  repudiated  it  after  its  false 
philosophy  became  apparent  to  him ; 

3.  Allow  a  learned  Secular  Journalist  to 
deal  with  its  un-Christian  philosophy; 

4.  Show  from  the  foremost  Socialist 
Leaders  and  Editors  that  Socialism  is  not 
wholly  Economic,  but  proposes  a  most  immoral 
creed,  which  no  Christian  could  subscribe  to. 

—THE  COMPILER. 


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False  Principles  of  Economic 
Socialism  Shown. 

(By  the  Rev.  M.  Phelan,  S.  J.) 

"I  shall  confine  myself  to  the  three  main  pillars 
on  which  Socialism  rests.  When  the  props  are 
shattered,  time  is  wasted  on  details." 

The  First  Pillar. 

The  main  article  of  Karl  Marx^s  creed,  viz., 
"All  wealth  comes  from  labor'' — that  is,  un- 
skilled labor — is  the  bedrock  of  the  various 
systems.  It  has  been  styled  "the  right  arm  of 
Socialism.''  Let  us  address  ourselves  to  the 
theory.  The  absurdity  of  a  theory  that  passes 
for  an  axiom  will  appear  clearer  from  illustra- 
tion than  from  dry  scholastic  arguments.  Ark- 
wright,  a  barber  of  moderate  income,  invented 
the  spinning  jenny,  which  was  destined  to 
revolutionize  the  weaving  industry.  The  result 
of  his  inventive  genius  is,  after  much  brain- 
work,  a  concrete  fact.  The  framework  of  his 
thought  has  solidified  it  into  bolts  and 
mortices.  The  child  of  his  brain  lies  at  his 
feet,  yet  it  is  powerless  to  produce  a  penny  till 
another  power  steps  in.  Two  gentlemen  of  for- 
sight  and  moral  courage  are  found  to  venture 
their  money  and  float  the  scheme  of  Arkwright, 
and  make  it  a  palpitating  force  in  the  industrial 
world.  A  third  element  is  now  required,  the 
muscle-labor  of,  say,  ten  men.  Now  the  machine 
begins  to  throb  and  become  a  wealth-producer. 
You  have  three  independent  forces  combining 
in  that  production: 

1.  The  inventive  genius  of  Arkwright — an 
intellectual  force. 


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2.  The  courageous  enterprise  of  the 
capitalists  who  floated  it — a  moral  force. 

3.  The  muscle  exertion  of  ten  laborers — 
a  physical  force. 

It  works  with  marvelous  results.  By  its 
aid  these  ten  men  produce  as  much  as  a  hun- 
dred working  with  their  hands  only.  These  men 
previously  produced  ten  pounds  weekly,  now 
they  produce  a  hundred.  To  whom  does  the 
surplus  ninety  pounds  belong?  The  Socialist 
answers,  since  "all  wealth  comes  from  labor,'^ 
it  belongs  to  the  ten  men  working  the  machine. 
If  Arkwright,  the  inventor,  or  his  friends  who 
brought  foresight,  courage  and  capital  to  the 
venture,  claim  a  penny,  it  is  called  robbery. 
This  simple  illustration,  better  than  the  most 
subtle  arguments,  will  help  you  to  realize  the 
absurdity  of  a  system  that  rests  on  such  a 
foundation. 

ANOTHER  EXAMPLE, 

Let  us  take  another  example.  A  building 
contractor,  a  man  quick  to  discover  the  drift 
of  his  times  and  take  advantage  of  it,  calcu- 
lates that  the  city  will  extend  in  a  certain 
direction.  He  sees  this  before  his  neighbor. 
Now  he  calls  in  another  gift — moral  courage. 
On  the  strength  of  his  calculation  he  invests 
money  and  buys  land  in  that  locality.  He 
casts  around,  and  by  the  aid  of  a  third  gift 
he  discovers  where  materials  can  be  produced 
cheaply  close  at  hand.  A  fourth  force  he  now 
brings  into  play — the  genius  of  combination. 
He  organizes  his  band  of  workers.  He  dis- 
covers not  only  quarries,  but  more  hidden 
treasures — the  varied  capabilities  of  his  work- 
men. He  reads  their  characters,  and  places 
each  at  the  precise  post  for  which  his  individ- 
ual strength  or  temperament  fits  him.   You  in- 


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spect  the  works.  Some  men  are  dressing  stones, 
some  polishing  marble,  and  some  laying  bricks 
— all  engaged  in  separate  employments.  Yet 
the  man  with  his  hands  in  his  pockets  is  the 
frame  that  holds  together,  combines  and  harmo- 
nizes these  various  labors,  pointing  all  in- 
dividual efforts  to  one  definite  end.  His  brains 
are  to  their  toil  what  the  cement  is  to  the 
house;  it  combines  and  holds  together  the 
varied  elements  into  one  structure.  He  touches 
neither  trowel  nor  plane,  yet  see  what  he  con- 
tributes to  the  building.  His  foresight  enabled 
him  to  lay  his  finger  on  the  pulse  of  the  times 
and  read  its  current.  His  courage  then  backed 
his  judgment.  Finally,  he  discovered  the 
abilities  of  the  men,  assorted  and  marshalled 
them.  Dead  capital  lay  at  the  bank;  it  is  in- 
capable of  making  a  blade  of  grass  grow  till 
he  comes  and  touches  it  with  the  genius  of 
enterprise,  and  lo!  it  is  vitalized  and  becomes 
the  source  of  wealth  to  scores.  See  what  an 
array  of  forces  this  man  contributes  to  the 
building.  It  is  finished.  Time  has  justified 
his  judgment.  Prices  in  that  quarter  of  the 
city  rush  up.  He  sells  the  houses  and  makes 
a  thousand  pounds.  Every  penny  of  it,  the 
Socialist  says,  should  be  divided  among  the 
workmen,  for  their  creed  is  "All  wealth  comes 
from  labor'' — muscle-labor,  of  course.  The 
varied  forces  he  threw  into  the  task  are  ignor- 
ed. 

ACTIONS  VERSUS  THEORIES. 

Let  us  pursue  this  reasoning  one  step 
step  further.  Let  us  suppose  that  all  his  work- 
men are  Socialists.  They  hold  an  indignation 
meeting.  The  speakers  enlarge  on  the  employ- 
er's villa  and  parlor  comforts,  on  the  rugs  and 
phaeton  of  his  wife,  and  assure  their  hearers 


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that  all  these  are  purchased  by  the  sweat  of 
their  labor.  We  have  seen  that  there  were 
other  and  higher  elements  also  contributing 
towards  the  production  of  wealth. 

Now,  let  us  see  how  do  the  actions  of  these 
workers  square  with  their  own  theories.  Ask 
the  carver  and  bricklayer  why  do  they  claim 
higher  wages  than  the  hod-carrier.  If  all 
wealth  comes  from  labor,  his  hours  are  longer 
and  his  work  more  laborious  than  theirs.  They 
quickly  answer  that,  besides  muscle-strength, 
they  bring  minds  and  skilled  judgment  to  their 
task.  True,  but  that  answer  cuts  the  ground 
from  under  their  feet  as  Socialists.  The  mo- 
ment they  admit  that  there  is  any  source  of 
wealth  other  than  labor  the  whole  case  for 
Socialism  topples.  There  is  no  argument  for 
the  claim  of  skilled  labor  to  surplus  wage  above 
unskilled  that  does  not  equally  hold  for  the 
surplus  profits  of  the  employer.  So  much  for 
the  ^^right  arm"  of  Socialism. 

The  Second  Pillar. 

The  second  pillar  of  the  Socialist  system 
is — the  rate  of  wage.  It  is  called  the  left  arm 
of  Socialism.  They  assume  that  all  wealth 
comes  from  labor.  They  are  confronted  with 
a  serious  diflSculty.  In  the  republic  they  would 
establish,  they  can  not  do  without  people  who 
work,  not  with  their  hands,  but  their  heads 
mainly.  How,  then,  will  they  reward  the  sur- 
geon, the  general,  and  discoverers  of  new  ma- 
chines? Their  answer  is,  since  all  wealth  comes 
from  labor,  a  labor-day  wage  is  the  unit  of 
measurement.  If,  let  us  say,  five  shillings  a 
day  is  the  fair  wage  settled  on,  then  the  author, 
general,  and  doctor  will  be  paid  five  schillings 
for  every  day  they  work.    Now  I  think,  if 


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they  were  strictly  logical,  they  would  pay  them 
nothing,  for  by  doing  so  they  acknowledge  there 
is  another  source  of  wealth  that  is  not  manual, 
and  therefore  the  whole  Socialistic  scheme 
tumbles  like  a  house  of  cards. 

Let  us  pass,  and  see  how  the  wage  law 
would  work  out  in  practice.  Some  of  the  great- 
est events  in  the  world's  history  were  accom- 
plished in  comparatively  short  periods  of  time. 
It  is  said  Napoleon  planned  the  battle,  con- 
verged his  forces,  and  won  the  victory  of 
Austerlitz  in  a  fortnight.  While  musing  on  the 
swaying  sanctuary  lamp  in  the  Cathedral  of 
Pisa,  during  the  brief  time  of  Benediction, 
Galileo  discovered  the  laws  of  the  pendulum. 
Probably  in  half  that  time  Newton,  observing 
the  fall  of  an  apple,  discovered  the  law  of 
gravitation.  While  watching  the  steam  lifting 
the  lid  of  the  boiling  kettle,  the  idea  of  the 
engine  grew  on  the  mind  of  Watt.  His  inven- 
tion has  revolutionized  the  world.  Let  us  sup- 
pose these  men  looking  for  their  rewards  from 
a  Socialistic  State.  Napoleon  goes  to  Paris. 
He  says:  "I  have  laid  two  Empires  at  your 
feet.  I  have  covered  your  army  with  deathless 
glory.  I  have  given  a  name  that  will  thrill 
the  blood  of  unborn  millions.  Austerlitz  will 
be  a  magic  sound  of  Frenchmen  for  all  time. 
What  is  my  reward?" 

He  is  asked:  "How  long  did  it  all  take 
you?"  "A  fortnight,"  he  replies.  "Then  you 
are  entitled  to  fourteen  five  schilling  pieces, 
for,  according  to  our  law,  the  makers  of  em- 
pires and  makers  of  wheelbarrows  stand  on  the 
same  level — ^One  man  is  as  good  as  another.' 
*A11  men  are  equal.' "  By  the  same  wage-rate 
Galileo  would  be  rewarded  with  sixpence,  and 
a  three  penny-bit  is  all  that  would  come  to 
Newton,  while  poor  Watt  would  scarcely  get 


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sufficient  to  buy  water  to  fill  his  own  kettle. 
The  system  that  would  pay  a  surgeon,  who  ex- 
tracts a  tumor  and  saves  a  life,  a  couple  of 
pence,  that  would  rate  the  labors  of  a  field- 
marshal  and  a  hod-carrier  of  equal  importance, 
that  would  measure  the  work  of  Shakespeare 
and  the  work  of  a  scavenger  by  the  same  stand- 
ard, is  too  absurd  to  be  argued  with.  So  much 
for  the  left  arm  of  Socialism. 

The  Third  Pillar. 

We  now  come  to  the  last  pillar  that  sup- 
ports Socialism.  "All  misery,"  they  cry, 
"comes  from  the  possession  of  private  prop- 
erty." All  private  possessions  should  become 
the  common  property  of  all,  to  be  administered 
by  the  State  or  municipal  bodies."  Before 
addressing  myself  to  this  contention,  a  word 
of  explanation.  A  Catholic  is  as  free  as  any- 
one to  advocate  co-operation  of  industries,  al- 
so to  insist  on  the  State  assuming  control  over 
this  or  that  department,  if  the  public  good 
demands  it.  Men  say,  since  the  State  controls 
the  police,  the  postal  department,  etc.,  why  not 
control  the  railways,  too?  There  is  no  moral 
reason  why  it  should  not.  It  may  take  up 
this  and  that  and  the  other  department.  It  Is 
impossible  to  draw  an  abstract  line  to  limit  it. 
But  that  there  is  a  line  across  which  no  State 
must  pass  is  beyond  all  question.  The  State 
must  never  thrust  its  hand  into  your  pocket 
and  claim  the  purse  you  have  filled  from  the 
sweat  of  your  brow.  Secondly,  the  State  must 
never  invade  the  sanctuary  of  your  home,  to 
wrench  from  you  the  authority  with  which  God 
and  Nature  invested  you  over  your  child  and 
house.  These  are  the  two  tyrant  powers  So- 
cialism would  arm  its  republic  with.  They  cry : 


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(1)  Private  possession  is  public  robbery.  (2) 
The  State,  and  not  the  father,  rules  the  home. 
Let  us  address  ourselves  to  these  two. 

1.  "Every  man  has  by  nature  the  right  to 
possess  private  property  as  his  own,''  says  the 
Pope,  "and  man  is  older  than  the  State,  and  he 
holds  the  right  of  providing  for  the  life  of  his 
body  prior  to  the  formation  of  the  State.  *  *  ♦ 
God  has  granted  the  earth  to  mankind  in  gener- 
al, not  in  the  sense  that  all,  without  distinc- 
tion, can  do  with  it  as  they  please,  but  rather 
that  no  part  of  it  has  been  assigned  to  anyone 
in  particular,  and  that  the  limits  of  private 
possession  have  been  left  to  be  fixed  by  man's 
own  industry  and  the  laws  of  individual 
peoples." 

CLEAR  STATEMENT  OF  PRINCIPLE. 

Here  is  the  clear  statement  of  principle 
bearing  not  only  the  stamp  of  the  Church's 
teaching,  but  the  approval  of  common  sense. 
If  the  possession  of  private  property  is  a  nat- 
ural law,  you  might  as  well  legislate  agaiicst 
the  laws  of  maternity,  or  the  circulation  of  the 
blood,  as  to  uproot  by  a  civil  enactment  whal 
is  based  on  the  laws  of  nature.  That  private 
possession  is  so  founded  becomes  very  clear 
when  we  go  back  to  the  infancy  of  the  human 
family.  The  home  existed  before  the  State.  It 
had  its  laws  and  rights  before  States  were 
heard  of.  The  first  pair  founded  a  perfect 
commonwealth.  Nature  commanded  the  head 
of  the  home — the  father — to  provide  for  its 
members.  Did  he  allow  his  children  to  starve 
till  a  State  sprang  into  existence  to  feed  them? 
No;  by  his  labor  as  a  huntsman  and  a  tiller  of 
the  land  he  supported  them.  He  gave  them 
clothing,  built  their  homes,  and  made  provisioti 
for  the  future.    When  he   placed  meat  and 


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clothes  before  his  child^  to  whom  did  they  be- 
long? Was  his  private  property  his  ovm  or 
the  State's?  Not  the  State's,  for  no  State  was 
in  existence.  Therefore  by  natural  right  it 
belongs  to  himself.  Is  he  robbing  a  Republic 
that  does  not  exist  when  he  appropriates  and 
assumes  absolute  control  over  anima-ls  he  has 
killed,  or  the  fruit  he  sowed  and  reaped? 

These  are  questions  Socialists  are  called  on 
to  answer  when  they  say  private  property  is 
robbery.  Men  multiply,  civil  communities, 
cities  and  States  are  formed.  They  make  laws. 
What  are  the  nature  and  extent  of  these  laws? 
Do  these  laws  extinguish  the  natural  rights 
man  previously  had?  If  so,  when  and  how? 

IS  THE  HOME  ABSORBED  BY  THE  STATE. 

Certainly  not.  The  civil  laws  control  one 
only  in  those  things  where  the  good  of  the  com- 
munity is  concerned.  There  they  begin  and 
end,  and  the  natural  rights  and  duties  of  the 
individual  remain  as  strong,  and  the  home  as 
absolute  and  as  sacred  a  commonwealth,  as 
when  Jacob  sat  under  his  own  fig-tree,  and  Lot 
and  Abraham  parcelled  out  the  plains  by  the 
Jordan.  There  is  no  condition  of  greater  self- 
effacement  than  in  the  life  of  a  soldier,  yet 
even  stern  military  law  halts  at  the  sacred 
boundary  marked  out  by  Nature's  hand.  It 
respects  the  private  right  of  the  soldier  to  his 
purse  and  the  control  of  his  home.  What  mad- 
ness on  the  part  of  anyone  to  impose  on  private 
civilians  a  strain  that  even  military  discipline 
will  not  bear?  If  private  property  is  robbery, 
it  was  so  when  God  gave  the  Ten  Command- 
ments on  Sinai.  Yet  He  says :  ^^Thou  shalt  not 
covet  thy  neighbor's  wife ;  nor  his  house,  nor  his 
field,  *  ♦  *  nor  his  ox,  nor  his  ass,  nor  anything 
that  is  his"  (Duet.  v.  21).    Here  the  Divine 


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law  not  only  recognizes  the  rights  of  private 
ownership,  but  hedges  it  around  as  a  sacred 
thing.  When  Christ  came,  wherever  His  eyes 
turned  they  rested  on  private  property — the 
treasured  home,  the  walled  garden,  etc.  Does 
He  denounce  them  as  robbery?  He  tells  the 
young  man  to  sell  his  possessions.  How  could 
he  sell  them  except  he,  and  not  the  State,  owned 
them?  The  first  step  towards  abolishing  pri- 
vate ownership  should  be  the  striking  of  the 
Seventh  Commandment  from  the  Decalogue — 
"Thou  Shalt  not  steal." 

INEVITABLE  RESULT. 

If  such  teaching  were  carried  into  private 
practice,  see  the  consequences  to  follow.  If 
you  search  down  amongst  the  fibres  of  the  hu- 
man heart  you  will  find  the  mainspring  of  most 
of  our  actions  is  labelled  "self."  A  man  toils 
for  fame.  Whose  fame?  His  own.  A  man 
wears  out  his  life  in  building  a  home  and  for- 
tune for  a  wife  and  child.  Why?  Because 
they  are  his  bone  and  blood,  and  bear  his  name 
— his  other  self. 

Now,  before  making  the  first  step  into  the 
Socialistic-Republic,  you  are  called  on  to  place 
the  forceps  deep  into  the  inmost  chamber  of 
the  heart,  and  tear  out  its  strongest  fibre — self. 
Here  you  destroy  the  most  powerful  force  that 
ever  nerved  men  to  deeds  of  daring. 

Will  the  author  slave  in  a  garret  under  the 
midnight  lamp,  if  he  is  assured,  when  his  work 
comes  out,  it  is  not  his  own,  but  the  "result  of 
his  social  environments" — the  products  of  the 
State?  Will  the  patriot  tramp  through  winter 
snows,  and  bear  the  rough  privations  of  war, 
for  a  State  that  watches  his  heroic  achieve- 
ments not  with  a  pencil  of  light  to  inscribe  his 
name  on  a  Scroll  of  Fame,  but  with  a  sponge 


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to  blot  out,  and  tell  him  he  is  but  a  cog  in  the 
wheels  of  the  great  machine,  the  State,  and 
mere  cogs  must  be  content  in  their  legitimate 
obscurity?  Will  the  business  man  toil  and  rack 
his  brains  if  you  destroy  the  hope  of  the  subur- 
ban villa  where  the  autumn  of  life  may  pass  in 
ease  and  comfort,  with  a  family  established  in 
affluence?  Will  the  farmer  face  the  darkness 
and  sleet  of  the  winter's  morning,  or  toil  in 
all  weathers,  if  he  may  not  claim  the  yield  of 
autumn?  Will  he  sow  if  he  knows  another  will 
reap?  Will  men  of  exceptional  ability  make 
great  exertions  except  tempted  by  exceptional 
reward  ?  * 

But  this  in  a  Social  State  would  be  treason, 
for  the  Chief  Justice  and  the  street-sweep  are 
to  stand  on  a  common  level.  Destroy  private 
possessions,  and  you  paralyze  exertion.  All 
will  struggle  in  the  race  when  the  prize  is  a 
substantial  plum  cake,  but  take  away  the  cake 
and  substitute  a  sunflower,  and  few  will  sweat 
for  the  prize. 

2.  Space  does  not  permit  more  than  a 
word  on  the  proposed  absolutism  of  the  State. 
The  sovereignty  of  the  father  must  be  upheld 
in  the  home  if  life  is  to  be  worth  living.  The 
State  and  its  functionaries  must  remain  out- 
side. The  State  exists  for  the  man,  and  not 
the  man  for  the  State.  The  servant  must  not 
become  the  master.  "The  idea,"  says  the  Pope, 
"that  the  Civil  Government  should,  at  its  own 
discretion,  penetrate  and  pervade  the  family 


(*Note — The  author,  of  course,  wiU  admit  that 
there  are  exceptions  to  this  rule  of  selfishness,  but 
when  not  inspired  by  the  religious,  supernatural 
motive,  they  are  so  rare  that  the  Socialists'  hope  is 
laughable.  And  under  socialism  God,  eternity  and 
supernatural  will  yield  to  self,  the  present  life  and 
the  natural.) 


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and  the  household  is  a  great  and  pernicious 
mistake."  If  the  State  were  dragged  into  the 
home  to  meddle,  pry  and  dictate  in  the  most 
sacred  and  private  details,  life  would  be  in- 
tolerable. We  all  admire  the  policeman.  He 
is  a  picturesque  object  on  the  street,  but  none 
of  us  wish  to  be  put  to  bed  by  a  policeman,  and 
our  food  prescribed  by  a  policeman.  These  are 
the  three  main  pillars  on  which  Socialism  rests. 
To  all  I  have  said,  I  know  there  is  an  answer: 

1.  I  will  be  told,  in  the  new  Republic  man 
will  be  a  changed  being.  His  Heart  will  be 
filled  with  brotherly  love.  The  author,  general 
surgeon,  all  will  be  so  enamored  of  the  State 
that  they  will  toil  for  the  State,  and  rejoice 
to  share  brotherhood  and  common  equality  with 
the  scavenger.  Here  the  inherent  defect  of  the 
whole  system  crops  to  the  surface — the  people 
of  the  Republic  with  man  as  he  is  constructed 
in  dreams,  instead  of  poor  old  selfish  humanity 
as  we  know  it.  What  is  to  purge  man  of  cor- 
ruption and  transform  him  into  an  angel?  Re- 
ligion, that  could  muzzle  his  lowest  passion* 
and  purify  his  highest  aspirations,  is  thrust 
out  of  the  scheme.  The  poet  of  Socialism  tells 
us,  "Heaven  is  to  be  left  to  the  angels  and  the 
sparrows.'' 

2.  Again,  I  will  be  told  machinery  will  be 
so  perfect  that  men  will  need  only  work  two 
hours  a  day  and  five  days  a  month. 

3.  That  the  world  of  chemistry  is  practi- 
cally unexplored;  that  it  may  yet  be  possible 
to  extract  bread  out  of  sunshine.  You  see,  it 
is  very  convenient  to  have  the  bank  of  futurity 
to  draw  checks  on.  The  answer  to  all  this  is 
evident. 


1^  Socialism  Unmasked. 


n. 

Why  He  Left  the  Ranks  of  the 
Socialist  Party. 

(We  present  herewith  the  letter  which  David 
Goldstein  wrote  to  the  Massachusetts  State  Socialist 
Committee,  in  which  he  states  his  reasons  for  repu- 
diating what  he  long  stood  and  fought  for.) 


"Boston,  May  23,  1903. 
"To  the  Massachusetts  State  Committee,  Socialist 
Party,  Hon.  James  F.  Carey,  Chairman;  Mr.  Squire 
E.  Putney,  Secretary: 


^^Gentlemen : — After  a  lapse  of  eight  years 
of  active  work  upon  the  soapbox,  on  the  lec- 
ture platform,  in  debate  and  in  the  press,  in 
behalf  of  what  I  had  understood  to  be  the 
principles  of  Socialism;  after  eight  years  :)f 
work  as  organizer,  executive  officer  and  candi- 
date of  Socialist  parties;  after  eight  years  of 
study  of  the  alleged  scientific  basis  of  Social- 
ism, namely  Karl  Marx'  ^Capital,'  now  when  I 
feel  competent  to  expound  its  doctrinal  points, 
I  ha  ve  come  to  the  point  where  I  desire  to  termi- 
nate my  connection  with  the  Socialist  move- 
ment. I  am  convinced  that  it  is  not  a  bona 
fide  political  effort,  that  it  would  gain  political 
power  to  the  end  of  dissolving  the  social,  re- 
ligious, civic,  economic  and  family  relation- 
ship which  now  exists — which  have  cost  man 
countless  ages  in  upbuilding.  Careful  study  of 
the  underlying  causes  of  discord  and  disrup- 
tion which  are  of  constant  recurrence,  not  only 
within  the  Socialist  parties  of  the  United 
States,  but  also  in  every  country  in  which  So- 
cialism has  taken  up  its  propaganda,  leads  me 
to  the  conviction  that  the  attitude  of  negation 
to  all  that  is  fundamental  in  human  affairs — 


Socialism  Unmasked. 


the  denial  of  God — the  opposition  to  the  State 
— the  disruption  of  monogamie  marriage — does 
not,  nor  can  it  ever  lead  to  a  coherent  political 
party  with  a  constructive  program. 

''The  basic  reason  for  the  long  sustained  and 
persistent  attempt  to  stifle  the  voice  and  pen  of 
Martha  Moore  Avery  is  that  she  may  not  throw 
the  lime  light  upon  the  low-browed  philosophies 
cherished  as  Socialist  sentiment.  Even  though 
Mrs.  Avery  devotes  her  knowledge  and  her 
critical  ability,  not  to  speak  of  her  life,  to  the 
upbuilding  of  a  State  wherein  workmen  may 
come  into  a  position  of  industrial  equity,  the 
fact  is  that  she  is  philosophically  opposed  to 
those  Socialists  who  control  the  press  and  com- 
manding official  positions,  prompting  dis- 
honest methods  to  be  employed  in  their  effort 
to  suppress  open  discussion.  How  weak  must 
Socialists  feel  when  free  speech  is  denied  its 
membership ! 

^^I  had  long  hoped  and  often  expressed  the 
sentiment  that  the  irrational  literature  and 
the  economic  absurdities  spread  broadcast 
amongst  the  people  of  our  country  would 
change  in  character  with  the  growing  power  of 
the  organization.  But  after  close  application 
to  the  doctrinaires,  their  philosophy  and  their 
so-called  science,  I  must  conclude  that  the  So- 
cialism I  was  preaching  had  no  basis,  in  fact — 
it  was  not  the  kind  which  the  political  Socialist 
movement  stands  for.  It  is  my  conviction  that 
were  the  philosophical  doctrines  applied  to  a 
given  country,  or  to  the  civilized  world  in  gen- 
eral, as  promulgated  by  the  founders  of  ^Mod- 
ern Scientific  Revolutionary  International  So- 
cialism,' namely  by  Karl  Marx  and  Frederick 
Engels,  by  Kautsky  and  Bebel  of  Germany; 
Guedse  and  De  Ville  of  France;  Hyndman  and 
Bax  of  England;  Vandervelde  of  Belgium; 


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Socialism  Unmasked. 


Ferri  of  Italy,  and  many  others  upon  the 
continent  of  Europe;  by  Simons,  Herron,  Lee, 
Unterman  and  others  in  the  United  States,  that 
economic  justice,  even  in  the  degree  which 
exists  today,  Avould  be  unknown.  That  is  to 
say,  I  am  convinced  that  Socialism  as  organized 
internationally  stands  for  the  entire  breaking 
down  of  the  individual  standards  of  Moral  re- 
sponsibility; that  the  Socialist  philosophy  of 
^Economic  Determinism'  stands  for  the  substi- 
tution of  religious  principles  by  social  stand- 
ards of  ethics  set  up  on  the  basis  of  mere 
physical  satisfactions. 

^^The  State,—  no;  did  I  say  the  State? 
Socialism,  according  to  the  authorities 
which  I  have  cited,  stands  for  the  dissolution 
of  political  action — in  short,  for  the  abolition 
of  the  State.  These  Socialist  authorities  de- 
clare they  ^have  no  respect  for  the  present  mar- 
riage system,'  they  stand  for  the  abolition  of 
marriage.  The  children?  Yes,  there  will  be 
children  under  Socialism — but  they  will  not 
belong  to  the  mothers.  The  community  will  be 
the  father  and  the  mother  of  them  all — the 
guardians  of  all  children,  ^legitimate  and 
illegitimate.' 

^^Are  these  doctrines  new  in  the  Socialist 
field  ?  No !  You  know  full  well  my  opposition 
to  them  is  not  new — I  would  recall  the  resolu- 
tion which  I  presented  to  the  last  convention 
which  declares  that  speakers  who  attack  the 
theological  doctrines  or  dogmas,  who  advocate 
violence,  ^free  love,'  or  other  doctrines  of  So- 
cialism shall  be  by  the  Executive  Committee 
deemed  disqualified  for  the  Socialist  platform, 
l^our  hostility  to  my  attitude  towards  these 
questions  caused  you  to  make  strenuous  efforts 
to  block  my  progress  on  the  Socialist  platform 
and  in  the  press.  I  do  not  forget  the  deceitful 
challenge  from  the  floor  at  the  last  state  con- 


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vention  to  produce  evidence  of  my  assertions. 
Many  were  prejudiced  by  your  clamor  into 
thinking  it  did  not  exist. 

"I  may  tell  you  that  I  have  taken  up  your 
gage  of  battle.  I  will  bring  forward  my  proofs 
— overwhelming  you  shall  find  them.  I  have 
for  months  been  engaged  in  collecting  the  ma- 
terial for  a  book;  which,  with  the  help  of  Al- 
mighty God,  I  will  in  the  near  future  give  to 
the  public,  which  will  prove  to  the  candid  mind 
(if  facts  count  for  anything)  that  a  vote  cast 
for  Socialism  is  a  vote  cast  for  the  destruction 
of  those  institutions  which  promote  and  sus- 
tain civilization,  namely,  the  Church,  the  State 
and  the  Monogamic  family. 

^'Citizens  will  ponder  this  question ;  can 
society  be  saved  from  the  present  economic  in- 
justice, which  is  a  stench  in  a  true  man's  nos- 
trils, by  the  general  destruction  courted  by  the 
Socialist  philosophy  in  control  of  the  political 
power?  For  myself,  I  answer  emphatically 
NO. 

"Therefore,  I  take  leave  of  Socialist  organi- 
zations. I  have  this  day  tendered  my  resigna- 
tion as  member  of  the  Highland  District  So- 
cialist Party,  and  of  the  Boston  Socialist  Party 
Ward  and  City  Committee.  I  have,  too,  ten- 
dered my  resignation  as  representative  of  the 
General  Committee  of  Massachusetts  Socialist 
Clubs.  I  beg  leave  herewith  to  resign  my  mem- 
bership in  the  State  Committee  of  the  Socialist 
Party  of  Massachusetts. 

"Eespectfully, 

"DAVID  GOLDSTEIN.'' 


Socialism  Unmasked. 


III. 

The  Philosophy  of  Socialism 
Is  Un-Christian. 

(Chicago  "Inter-Ocean,"  Editorial,  Aug.  12,  1912.) 

^'It  is  rather  surprising  that  the  Prot- 
estant churchmen  of  this  country  have  been  so 
slow  to  see  that  socialism  is  the  enemy  of 
Christianity — so  slow  in  defense  of  their  faith. 

^^The  hostility  of  Socialism  to  Christianity 
is  inevitable  because  of  the  fact  that  socialism 
is  not  merely  a  political  method,  but  also  a 
philosophy  of  life  whose  assumptions  and  aims 
are  purely  materialistic — are  directed  solely  to 
the  attainment  of  ideals  of  ^comfort'  as  life's 
greatest  good. 

^'Marxian  Socialism,  the  only  kind  that  is 
militant  and  seeks  political  revolutions  and  so 
counts  in  effect,  refuses  to  concern  itself  with 
anything  beyond  the  present  life  and  this  world. 
It  has  no  answer — it  even  denies  the  need  of 
any  answer — to  the  perpetual  question  of  the 
soul :  ^If  a  man  die,  shall  he  live  again  ?' 

^^Socialism  professes  to  leave  every  man 
free  to  think  as  he  pleases  on  that  subject.  In 
reality  it  discourages  thought  on  it  as  unim- 
portant. Most  of  the  foremost  exponents  of 
socialism  have  been  and  are  avowed  atheists, 
denying  both  the  existence  of  God  and  the  im- 
mortality of  the  soul.  At  best  the  attitude  of 
socialism  toward  religion  is  agnostic.  It  says 
to  the  eternal  question:  'We  don't  know;  we 
can't  find  out;  it  isn't  worth  while  to  try.' 

^^Denying  the  need  of  any  religious  sanction 
for  morals,  socialism  degrades  those  human 
relations  which  Christianity,  because  of  their 
fundamental  character  in  distinguishing  men 


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from  brutes,  has  clothed  with  an  especial  sacred- 
ness. 

^^Marriage,  for  example,  is  regarded  by  So- 
cialism as  purely  a  civil  contract  and  as  less 
binding  upon  the  parties  than  a  contract  for  the 
purchase  and  sale  of  commodities.  If  a  farmer 
has  agreed  to  sell  so  many  bushels  of  potatoes 
in  the  ground  at  the  market  price,  and  then 
should  refuse  to  deliver  them  when  dug  because 
the  price  had  meanwhile  risen,  socialists  would 
call  that  farmer  'dishonest.' 

^^But  if  a  man  and  a  woman  had  sworn  to 
live  together  until  death  should  part  them,  and 
then  should  change  their  minds  about  it,  be- 
cause the  man  had  found  some  other  woman  he 
liked  better,  or  the  woman  some  other  man  she 
liked  better,  socialism  would  denounce  as  op- 
pressive any  exertion  of  the  power  of  the  state 
which  prevented  either  or  both  of  them  from 
following  their  personal  desires. 

^^To  say  this  is  not  to  say  that  all  Socialists 
are  unfaithful  to  their  marriage  vows.  Many 
of  them  are  just  as  strict  in  personal  practices 
as  the  most  devout  Christians.  But  it  is  merely 
a  personal  practice. 

^^Wherever  Socialism  has  obtained  power  in 
government,  as  in  France  today,  that  power  is 
exerted  to  eliminate  the  Christian  religion  as 
an  influence  and  factor  in  the  conduct  of  hu- 
man life.  The  public  schools  of  France,  under 
Socialistic  control,  teach  ^morality'  indeed,  but 
it  is  a  morality  without  God  and  repudiating 
the  need  of  any  sort  of  sanction  for  its  teach- 
ings beyond  the  finite  reason  and  will. 

"No  real  Christian  can  be  a  Socialist — if  he 
understands  socialism.  The  two  systems  are 
wholly  antagonistic  and  mutually  destructive. 
Socialism  recognizes  no  higher  power  in  the 
universe  than  man  himself. 


Socialism  Unmasked. 


IV. 

No  Christian  Could  Subscribe  to 
the  Creed  of  Real  Socialists. 

Now  let  us  see  what  is  the  attitude  of 
Socialist  Leaders  and  Editors  toward  religion 
and  morality,  Socialism  as  they  would  have  it : 

1.  Proposes  to  reject  God  and  religion. 

2.  Proposes  to  abolish  monogamic  mar- 
riage. 

I. 

Leaders  in  Socialism  everywhere, — in  Ger- 
many, France,  Spain,  England  and  the  United 
States,  say  that  under  Socialism  God  and 
Christianity  must  be  repudiated : 

MARX. 

(In  his  "Secret  Society  in  Switzerland.") 
"We  shaU  do  weU  if  we  stir  hatred  and  contempt 
against  aU  existing  institutions;  we  make  war 
against  aU  prevailing  ideas  of  religion,  of  the  state, 
of  country  and  of  patriotism.  The  idea  of  God  is 
the  keystone  of  perverted  civilization.  The  true 
root  of  civilization,  the  true  root  of  liberty,  of 
equality  and  of  culture,  is  ATHEISM." 


BEBEL. 

(In  an  essay,  republished  in  the  Vorwaerts  in  1901.) 

"Christianity  is  the  enemy  of  liberty  and  of 
civilization.  It  has  kept  mankind  in  slavery  and  op- 
pression. The  Church  and  the  State  have  always 
fraternally  united  to  exploit  the  people.  Christianity 
and  Socialism  are  like  fire  and  water." 


LIEBKNECHT. 

(In  his  "Materialist  Basis  of  History.") 
"I  am  an  Atheist,  I  do  not  believe  in  God.  It 
is  our  duty  as  socialists  to  root  out  the  faith  in  God 
with  all  our  might,  nor  is  any  one  worthy  the  name, 
who  does  not  consecrate  himself  to  the  spread  of 
Atheism." 


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LAFARGUE, 

(A  noted  French  Socialist  and  son-in-law  of  Marx.) 
"The  victory  of  the  proletariat  will  deliver  hu- 
manity from  the  nightmare  of  religion." 


HERVE. 

(Another  noted  French  Socialist  leader,  quoted  by 
Harold  Begbie —  Interview  Nov.  10,  1906.) 
"It  is  absolutely  necessary  to  destroy  all  vestige 
of  religious  idea,  Catholic,  Protestant,  and  Jewish, 
in  order  to  carry  out  the  entire  program  of  advancea 
Socialism,  which  depends  upon  the  disappearance  of 
every  form  of  theological  influence." 


SPANISH  SOCIALISTS. 

At  a  convention  of  Spanish  Socialists  held  at 
Madrid,  Sept.  21,  1899,  it  was  resolved  to  expel  any 
comrade  who  supported  positive  religion. 


VORWAERTS. 

(Leading  Socialist  paper  in  Germany.) 

"We  know  that  Christianity  has  not  brought 
redemption.  We  believe  in  no  Redeemer.  No  man, 
no  God  in  human  form,  no  Savior  can  redeem  hu- 
manity. Only  humanity  itself,  only  laboring  human- 
ity, can  save  humanity." 


ROBERT  BLATCHFORD. 

("Leading  Socialist  of  England,  in  "The  Clarion.") 
"I  do  not  believe  that  Christianity  or  Buddism 
or  Judaism  or  Mohammedanism  is  true.  I  do  not  be- 
lieve that  any  one  of  these  religions  is  necessary.  I 
do  not  believe  that  any  one  of  them  affords  a  per- 
fect rule  of  life. 

"I  deny  the  existence  of  a  Heavenly  Father.  I 
deny  the  efficacy  of  prayer.  I  deny  the  providence  of 
God.  I  deny  the  truth  of  the  Old  Testament  and  the 
New  Testament.  I  deny  the  truth  of  the  Gospels.  I 
do  not  believe  any  miracle  ever  was  performed.  I 
do  not  believe  that  Christ  was  divine.  I  do  not  be- 
lieve that  Christ  died  for  man.  I  do  not  believe  that 
he  ever  rose  from  the  dead.  I  am  strongly  inclined 
to  believe  that  he  never  existed  at  all. 

"I  deny  that  Christ  in  any  way  or  in  any  sense 
ever  interceded  for  man  or  saved  man  or  reconciled 
God  to  man  or  man  to  God.   I  deny  that  the  love  or 


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the  help  or  the  intercession  of  Christ  or  Buddha,  or 
Mohammed,  or  the  Virgin  Mary  is  of  any  use  to  any 
man. 

"I  do  not  believe  there  is  any  heaven,  and  I 
scorn  the  idea  of  hell." 


JOSEPH  LEATHAM. 

(In  "Socialism  and  Character.") 
"At  the  present  moment  I  cannot  remember  a 
single  instance  of  a  person  who  is  at  one  and  the 
same  time  a  really  earnest  and  intelligent  Socialist 
and  an  orthodox  Christian.  Those  who  do  not  openly 
attack  the  Church  and  the  fabric  of  Christianity 
show  but  scant  respect  to  either  the  one  or  the  other 
in  private.  *  *  *  While  all  of  us  are  indifferent 
to  the  Church,  many  of  us  are  frankly  hostile  to  her." 


JOHN  SPARGO. 

(In  The  Comrade,  May,  1903.) 
"How  often  do  we  see  quoted  in  our  own  press, 
from  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica,  that  familiar  fal- 
lacy that  *the  ethics  of  Christianity  and  Socialism  are 
identical.'  It  is  not  true;  we  do  not  ourselves,  in 
most  cases,  believe  it.  We  repeat  it  because  it  ap- 
peals to  the  slave-mind  of  the  world.  It  is  easier  so 
to  act,  than  to  affirm,  what  in  our  very  souls  we  feel 
to  be  true,  that  Socialism,  as  an  ethical  interpreta- 
tion of  life,  is  far  removed  from  Christianity  and  of 
infinitely  greater  beauty  and  worth.  *  *  *  Social- 
ism Christianized  would  be  Socialism  emasculated 
and  destroyed." 


GEORGE  D.  HERRON. 

"Christianity  stands  for  what  is  lowest  and 
basest  in  life.  The  Church  is  the  most  degrading 
of  all  our  Institutions,  and  the  most  brutalizing  in 
its  effects  on  the  common  life.  For  Socialism  to 
make  terms  with  the  Church  is  to  take  Judas  to  itft 
bosom." 


THE  NEW  YORKER  VOLKSZEITUNG. 

(The  principal  organ  of  Socialism  in  America.) 
"Socialism  and  belief  in  God,  as  is  taught  by 
Christianity  and  its  adherents;    are  incompatible^ 
Socialism  has  no  meaning  unless  it  is  atheistic." 


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THE  NEW  YORK  CALL. 

(March  2,  1912.) 
"There  is  nothing  to  be  gained  by  holding  out 
any  false  hopes  that  a  study  of  Socialism  does  not 
tend  to  undermine  religious  beliefs.  The  theory  of 
economic  determinism  alone,  if  thoroughly  grasped, 
leaves  no  room  for  a  belief  in  the  supernatural." 


THE  WORKER. 

(November  10,  1901.) 
"Christianity  is  a  huge  and  ghastly  parasite, 
consuming  billions  of  treasure  out  of  the  labor  and 
patience  of  the  people,  and  is  supremely  interested 
in  keeping  the  people  in  economic  and  spiritual  sub- 
jection to  capitalism.  The  spiritual  deliverance  of 
the  race  depend  on  its  escape  from  this  parasite. 
The  world  must  be  saved  from  its  salvations." 


THE  REVOLT. 

(May  6,  1911.) 
"Socialism  and  ethics  are  two  separate  things. 
This  fact  must  be  kept  in  mind." 


11. 

Socialist  leaders  explicitly  declare  that, 
under  Socialism,  marriage  will  terminate  at 
the  will  of  either  party;  therefore,  at  the  end 
of  a  month,  or  a  week,  or  earlier : 

FREDERICK  ENGELS. 

("The  Origin  of  the  Family,"  p.  99.) 
"If  marriage  founded  on  love  alone  is  moral, 
then  it  follows  that  ^marriage  is  moral  only  as  long 
as  love  lasts.'  The  duration  of  an  attack  of  indi- 
vidual sex  love  varies  considerable  according  to  in- 
dividual disposition,  especially  in  men.  A  positive 
cessation  of  fondness  or  its  replacement  by  a  new 
passionate  love  makes  a  separation  a  blessing  for 
both  parties  and  for  society.  But  humanity  will  be 
spared  the  useless  wading  through  the  mire  of  a 
divorce  case." 


MARX  AND  ENGELS. 

(In  the  Communist  Manifesto.) 
"It  is  self-evident  that  the  abolition  of  the 
present  system  of  production  must  bring  with  it  the 


26  Socialism  Unmasked. 


abolition  of  the  community  of  women — present  mar- 
riage— springing  from  that  system  of  prostitution, 
both  public  and  private." 


BEBEL. 

.Woman,  pp.  334,  335.) 
"In  the  choice  of  love,  she  is,  like  man,  free  and 
unhampered.  She  wooes  and  is  wooed,  and  closes 
the  bond  from  no  considerations  other  than  her  own 
inclinations.  This  bond  is  a  private  contract,  cele- 
brated without  the  intervention  of  any  functionary. 
If  incompatibility,  disenchantment  or  repulsion  set 
in  between  the  two  persons  that  have  come  together, 
morality  commands  that  the  unnatural  and,  there- 
fore, immoral,  bond  be  dissolved." 


LIEBKNECHT. 

"Socialism  will  destroy  prostitution,  whether  it 
walk  ashamed  under  the  mantle  of  marriage  for 
wealth  or  convenience,  or  whether  it  run  shameless, 
painted  and  naked  upon  the  streets." 


EDWARD  CARPENTER. 

(Praised  by  such  leading  Socialists  as  Leonard  D. 
Abbott  and  Marion  C.  Wentworth.) 

"Let  women  insist  on  the  right  to  speak,  dress 
think,  act,  and,  above  all,  to  USE  HER  SEX  AS 
SHE  DEEMS  BEST;  let  her  face  the  scorn  and  the 
ridicule;  let  her  lose  her  own  life  if  she  likes." 


BAX. 

(In  "Outlook  from  the  New  Standpoint, — p.  160.) 
"Meanwhile  we  ought  to  combat  by  every  means 
within  our  power  the  metaphysical  dogma  of  the 
inherent  sanctity  of  the  monogamic  principle." 


SHAW. 

("Quintessence  of  Ibsenism.") 
"Unless  woman  repudiates  her  womanliness,  her 
duty  to  her  husband,  to  her  children,  to  society,  to 
the  law,   and  to   everyone  but  self,   she  cannot 
amancipate  herself." 


Socialism  Unmasked. 


THE  UNINITIATED   DO   NOT  BELIEVE  THESE 
THINGS. 

But,  lest  Christians  might  not  give  Social- 
ism a  hearing,  its  moral  program  is  purposely 
covered  up  by  its  apostles. 

At  the  National  Socialist  Convention  held 
in  Chicago,  May  1908,  the  subject  of  "Eeligion 
under  Socialism"  came  up,  and  many  delegates 
expressed  their  regret,  inasmuch  as  their  cause 
would  be  hurt  by  it.  We  quote  herein  a  few  of 
the  displeased  ones : 

MR.  LEWIS. 

"I  am  among  those  who  sincerely  hoped  the 
question  of  religion  would  not  be  raised  at  this  con- 
vention. I  am  willing  to  concede  that  we  should  let 
sleeping  dogs  lie.  I  know  that  the  Socialist  position 
in  philosophy  on  the  question  of  religion  does  not 
make  a  good  campaign  subject.  It  is  not  useful 
propaganda  in  a  political  campaign.  I  DO  NOT  PRO- 
POSE TO  STATE  IN  THIS  PLATFORM  THE 
TRUTH  ABOUT  RELIGION  FROM  THE  POINT  OF 
VIEW  OF  THE  SOCIALIST  PHILOSOPHY."— 
Chicago  Daily  Socialist,  May  16,  1908. 


A  little  farther  on  in  his  impassioned  ad- 
dress, the  same  speaker  added  these  significant 
words : 

"Kautsky  says:  So  long  as  Christianity  ruled 
the  minds  of  men,  the  idea  of  revolution  was  re- 
jected as  a  sinful  revolt  against  divinely  constitued 
authority.  "But  we,"  contined  the  speaker,  "must 
not  go  before  the  people  of  this  country  telling  them 
that  so  long  as  Christianity  rules  their  minds,  they 
will  reject  the  idea  of  the  Socialist  revolution." 


MR.  HILQUIT. 

(Another  Delegate.) 
"We  should  not  go  out  in  our  propaganda  among 
the  people  who  are  still  groping  in  obscurity  (re- 
ligion) and  tell  them  that  they  must  first  become 
materialists  before  they  can  become  members  of  the 
Socialist  party.  After  we  have  disposed  of  the  things 


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which  touch  their  material  welfare  it  will  be  time 
to  approach  them  with  the  full  conseQuences  of  the 
socialist  philosophy." 


MR.  DEVINE. 

(Delegate.) 

"I  find  myself  in  a  different  position  from  the 
other  speakers.  I  am  of  the  few  nere,  who  are 
actively  engaged  in  the  factories.  I  want  to  say 
here,  that  we  must  be  careful  on  this  question.  I 
stand  here  as  one  actively  engaged  in  the  factory, 
trying  to  bring  the  workers  into  the  socialist  move- 
ment. I  find  they  are  men  of  all  religions.  I  am  ac- 
cused by  a  certain  class  of  people  in  the  factory.  I 
am  asked  how  can  I  be  a  Catholic  and  a  socialist? 
What  I  am  doesn't  matter.  They  don't  know  and 
you  don't  know,  and  it  is  nothing  to  either  of  us." 


It  is  true  that  the  Socialist  platform  says 
^^Religion  is  a  private  matter/'  but  this  only 
means  that  a  person  may  believe  as  he  pleases 
in  his  own  home. 

«    *  « 

THE  CHRISTIAN  CHURCH  MUST  REPUDIATE  IT. 
SOCIALISM  THE  SAME  EVERYWHERE. 

1.  The  Communist  Manifesto,  on  which 
Socialism  rests,  was  written  by  Carl  Marx  and 
Frederick  Engles,  both  of  whom  are  AVOWED 
ATHEISTS. 

*  «  « 

2.  The  philosophy  of  Socialism  is  based 

on  the  materialistic  conception  of  history,  which 

the  Christian  cannot  at  all  subscribe  to. 
»    «  * 

3.  A  Christian  must  believe  in  God,  crea- 
tion, revelation,  eternity,  the  spirituality,  and 
immortality  of  the  soul.   The  REAL  Socialist 

denies  all  these  things. 

*  *  * 

4.  A  Christian  must  believe  in  the  sanctity 
and  divine  institution  of  marriage.  Under 


Socialism  Unmasked. 


Socialism  there  would  be  no  lasting  marriage, 
but  one  ^^terminable  at  the  will  of  either  party/^ 
»    «  « 

5.  A  Christian  must  admit  the  right  of 
private  property,  otherwise  there  would  be  no 
meaning  to  the  commandments  "Thou  shalt 
not  steal/'  "Thou  shalt  not  covet  thy  neighbor's 
goods,  nor  his  wife,  nor  anything  that  is  his.'' 
♦    ♦  * 

You  might  be  told  that  Socialism  in  Amer- 
ica is  not  the  same  as  in  Europe,  but, 

'^Socialism  means  the  same  in  every  land^ 
—  (Appeal  to  Reason,  May  16,  1903.) 


A.  M.  SIMONS. 

"It  is  with  the  work  of  Karl  Marx  and  Frederick 
Engels  that  modern  Socialism  began  to  definitely 
take  on  the  forms  by  which  it  is  known  today.'* 


HILLQUIT. 

"The  International  Socialist  movement  with  its 
thirty  million  adherents,  at  a  conservative  estimate, 
and  its  organized  parties  in  twenty-five  civilized 
countries  in  both  hemispheres,  is  all  based  on  the 
same  Marxian  program,  and  follows  substantially  the 
same  methods  of  propaganda  and  action.  The 
'diverse  Socialism'  outside  the  organized  movement 
are  represented  by  small  groups  of  social  and  politi- 
cal dilettantes  toying  with  problems  of  the  universe 
and  exercising  no  influence  whatsoever  on  the  course 
of  the  International  Socialist  movement." 


Socialism  Unmasked. 


Socialism  Is  Often  Blasphemous. 


(On  the  editorial  page  of  The  New  York  Call, 
March  28,  1911,  under  the  caption  ^^An 
Ancient  Charity  Case,"  appeared 
the  following). 

"What  would  have  happened  if  1,900  years 
ago  organized  charity  of  the  modern  type  had 
flourished  in  Palestine  and  a  certain  young  car 
penter  from  Nazareth  had  applied  for  relief? 

"His  case  would  have  been  duly  referred  to 
a  trained  investigator.  And  the  answer  to  the 
schedule  of  inquiries  would  have  been  some- 
thing like  the  following: 

"Name:  Jesus,  son  of  Joseph,  the  master 
carpenter. 

"Born :  At  Nazareth,  Judea. 

"Age:  Thirty- three  years. 

"Health:  Good.    Capable  of  hard  work. 

"Applicant  has  not  worked  at  his  trade  for 
the  last  three  years.  Has  no  tools.  Either  sold 
or  pawned  them,  probably.  Has  no  home. 
Associates  with  low  characters  of  both  sexes, 
also  shiftless  and  roving.  Indulges  frequently 
in  disreputable  and  seditious  talk  about  the 
constituted  authorities.  Is  strongly  suspected 
of  anarchistic  tendencies.  Manifestly  has  been 
living  on  handouts,  or  worse.  It  is  on  record 
that  he  and  his  gang  plucked  ears  of  corn  in 
the  fields  without  permission.  Also  that  he  in- 
structed some  of  his  gang  to  steal  a  jackass  and 
bring  it  to  him  for  his  use.    Which  they  did. 

"He  should  be  taken  into  court  as  a  vagrant 
and  committed  to  the  farm  colony  for  tramps." 

Comment  is  unnecessary,  save  to  reiterate 
Socialism's  anti-Christian  character. 


Socialism  Unmasked. 


Bishop  vonKetteler  Opposed  Child- 
Labor  Before  Marx. 


In  1869  Bishop  von  Ketteler  delivered  a 
sermon  before  10,000  workingmen,  elaborating 
a  platform  of  social  reform.  He  denounced  the 
cruelty  of  child-labor  in  unequivocal  terms. 
The  following  was  his  platform : 

1.  Increase  of  wages  corresponding  to  the 
true  value  of  labor. 

2.  Shorter  hours  of  labor. 

3.  Days  of  rest. 

4.  Prohibition  of  child  labor  in  factories. 

5.  Prohibition  of  work  of  women  and 
especially  of  mothers  in  factories. 

6.  Future  prohibition  of  the  work  of 
young  girls  in  factories. 

The  following  is  his  arraignment  of  child 
labor:  ^^I  regard  child-labor  in  factories  as  a 
monstrous  cruelty  of  our  time,  a  cruelty  com- 
mitted against  the  child  by  the  spirit  of  the 
age  and  the  selfishness  of  parents.  I  look  on 
it  as  a  slow  poisoning  of  the  body  and  the  soul 
of  the  child.  With  the  sacrifice  of  the  joys  of 
childhood,  with  the  sacrifice  of  health,  with  the 
sacrifice  of  innocence  the  child  is  condemned 
to  increase  the  profits  of  the  entrepreneur  and 
oftentimes  to  earn  bread  for  parents  whose  dis- 
solute life  has  made  them  incapable  of  doing  so 
themselves. 

^^Hence  I  rejoice  at  every  word  spoken  in 
favor  of  the  workingman's  child.  Keligion  in 
its  great  love  for  children  cannot  but  support 
the  demand  for  the  prohibition  of  child-labor 
in  factories.  You,  my  dear  workmen,  can 
second  this  demand  most  efficaciously  by  never 
permitting  your  own  children  under  fourteen 
years  of  age  to  work  in  a  factory." — The  Live 
Issue,  September,  1912. 


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